Why should I avoid stealing anything in Teudogar?
Stealing was something most Teutons would have been quite ashamed of doing. (Consequently, in Teudogar you lose Charisma when you steal. And if you were caught, you’d be dishonored, apart from the fact that everyone will try to kill you.) There’s an anecdote of a Viking robber who was able to steal his victim’s possessions while his victim was sleeping. On leaving the house, this robber felt so ashamed of the cowardliness of his act that he returned, woke up his victim, told him what he’d just done, and challenged him to fight with him for his possessions. Now that was the decent thing to do. Indoeuropean culture (Teutons, Romans, Greeks, Indians, Persians as opposed to, say, Egyptians or Chinese) generally had a bias for violence and manliness. Etymologically, the word “to steal” (“stehlen” in German) is probably not Indoeuropean, but may have been taken from the language of a people defeated by Indoeuropeans when they settled in Europe. Typically, however, both “to rob” (“rauben” in
